FBI issue Arrest Warrants for teens responsible for Code Red mutant
THE FBI SAYS it has discovered an attempt to spread a new version of the Code Red virus and is in the process of telling the owners of about 6,000 computers that their systems have been infected. Warrants have been issued in the case, which the FBI thinks will prevent those responsible for the virus from triggering denial-of-service attacks from the machines, according to FBI Supervisory Special Agent Trent Teyema.
Several persons, some of them teenagers, are involved in this case, Teyema told a group of state network officials Monday at the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors. The virus is a variant of the Code Red virus that takes advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) in Windows 2000, Teyema said....
Feds thwart Code Red mutant
By Tim Greene, Network World
The FBI says it has identified many of the victims of this latest attack against business computers and is trying to reach them so they can take steps to purge the virus.
